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...Director Jonathan Stafford, clearly keen to shift the focus from the core repertoire by founder George Balanchine, has selected a programme featuring new(ish) work by Pam Tanowitz, Kyle Abraham and Justin...
...Wednesday’s capacity Covent Garden crowd was in full, adoring voice the instant the curtain rose to reveal the birthday boy in full god mode, as George Balanchine’s Apollo....
...Saturday UK: 10th birthday of Prince George, eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales and second in line to the British throne following his father Prince William....
...Marianela Núñez as Princess Aurora and Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Florimund are simply sublime....
...Amid the upheaval that has followed the police killing of George Floyd, such anxieties are being exacerbated by the Trump administration’s rush to develop a vaccine under its Operation Warp Speed....
...For Marcella Nunez-Smith, who heads up the Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force, the size of the challenge is clear....
...His longest and most celebrated partnership was with Marianela Núñez....
...Marianela Nuñez’s smiley manners are an odd fit for the bored and nervy Natalia Petrovna, and her shoulders and upper back are a mite unyielding for the Ashton style....
...Marianela Nuñez and Thiago Soares lent the gloss of glamour to Goyo Montero’s Circular Ruins, a slightly corny powerplay set to a commissioned score by Owen Belton in which the always picture-perfect Nuñez...
...The return of William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude found its title superbly realised in the gleaming bravura of Marianela Núñez (she produced a quadruple pirouette of blissful aptness)...
...Marianela Nuñez was beguilingly its star, Thiago Soares her impeccable cavalier. Glorious shapes of dance blossomed. The jewels blazed in Balanchine’s settings....
...There were two George Balanchine duets and five Kenneth MacMillan extracts on the menu, not all of them obvious gala fare....
...The weaker second half was enlivened by Núñez and Thiago Soares snaking through Gustavo Mollajoli’s A Buenos Aires....
...“How can one do something like that to Pushkin,” thundered George Balanchine on learning that a ballet had been made of Eugene Onegin, “and no one is put in jail?”...
...Cortez was not the first European to see the Pacific (it was another conquistador, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who led the expedition — Keats blundered)....
...Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the Galician regional president, said this month that the Corcoesto plan could not be approved in its current form....
...That is the worst reaction since George HW Bush chose Dan Quayle as his running mate in 1988....
...George Balanchine, the choreographer of this ballet, once said, “I don’t want people who can dance; I want people who have to dance.”...
...“I don’t have a lot of faith in the Bush administration’s promises that this will be fixed anytime soon,” said Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles)....
...He had been on the field just two minutes when he lashed in the rebound after Antonios Nikopolidis had palmed out Antonio Nunez's header....
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